castaway

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kăʹstu̇wā IPA: /ˈkæ.stə.weɪ/ X-SAMPA: /"k{.st@.weI/
• Hyphenation: KA(S)-stuh-weigh

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Adjective

castaway (not comparable)

1. Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

   After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.

2. Shipwrecked.

   The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.

Noun

castaway (plural castaways)

1. (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor.

   Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.

2. A discarded person or thing.

   This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.

3. An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.

   These homeless people are society's castaways.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:outcast

Related terms

• cast away

Translations

nautical: shipwrecked sailor

• Bulgarian: корабокрушенец (bg) (korabokrušenec) m
• Czech: trosečník (cs) m
• Finnish: haaksirikkoinen (fi)
• French: naufragé (fr)
• German: Schiffsbrüchiger (de) m

• Hungarian: hajótörött (hu)
• Italian: naufrago (it)
• Polish: rozbitek (pl) m
• Portuguese: náufrago (pt)
• Spanish: náufrago (es)

discarded person or thing

• Bulgarian: нещо изхвърлено (bg) (nešto izhvǎrleno)
• Finnish: hylkytavara (fi) (thing); hylkiö (fi) (person)

• Hebrew: פסולת (he)
• Hungarian: kitaszított (hu)
• Maori: rurenga (mi)

someone cast out of a group or society

• Finnish: hylkiö (fi)